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Soprano Superstar Renee Fleming in Aspen

Renee Fleming and Patrick Summers run the opera and vocal programs at the Aspen Music Festival and School. They talked with APR's Chris Mohr about Fleming's successful directorial debut with Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte and much more.

Classical music reporter Chris Mohr has loved classical music since he was twelve. “And I owe it all to radio,” Chris explains. “I grew up in a farm town east of Cleveland. One day I turned on the local classical radio station. They were playing Vivaldi, and it was like the gates of heaven opened up to me!" Chris is also a composer, and is working on a 53-note-to-the-octave oratorio, "Melodies of the Shoreless Sea." This is his 11th summer working for Aspen Public Radio.